Keywords and Reminders

Text: The Maori Pioneer Battalion

Text type: Comic recount

 Author: Monty Soutar

Purpose: To explain about war

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List the keywords on the left. Tell what the keywords remind the reader about on the right.

Keyword

Reminder

Parliament

Where people announce important things.

Contingent

Subject to chance.

Suffering

Feeling hurt or feeling left out.

Poverty

Not having lots of money.

Chaplain

A pastor that prays for people in the war.

Casualties

Feeling hurt but didn’t die.

Ancestors

Old family members that pass away.

Infantry

soldiers marching or fighting on foot; foot soldiers collectively.

Occupy

fill or preoccupy.

Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting

Expeditionary

of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.

Battalion

A large group of people ready for war.